Mike Davis

Managing Editor

Amitabh Pal is the Managing Editor of The Progressive. He writes on a variety of subjects, ranging from peace issues and economics to immigrant communities and the media. He is the author of "Islam" Means Peace: Understanding the Muslim Principle of Nonviolence Today (Praeger, 2011).

In addition to his role as the Managing Editor, Pal is the co-editor of the Progressive Media Project, an affiliate of The Progressive that sends out op-eds through the McClatchy wire service to hundreds of newspapers in the United States and other countries. Pal's op-eds have been published by dozens of newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer, Houston Chronicle, Miami Herald, and the Toronto Star.

Pal has appeared on C-SPAN and BBC and television and radio stations all over the United States and abroad. His articles have been published in school and college textbooks in the United States and Australia.

Pal teaches a course on media and social ethics at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin. He has a Master's in Journalism from the University of North Carolina and a Master's in Political Science from North Carolina State University.

Planet of SlumsBy Mike DavisVerso. 228 pages. $24.The view from an Indian train can sometimes be depressing. When you are out in the countryside, the bucolic landscape and the furrowed fields often mask rural poverty. It is when a train approache...more